{"id":379,"date":"2005-05-27T17:01:10","date_gmt":"2005-05-27T21:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=379"},"modified":"2005-05-27T17:01:10","modified_gmt":"2005-05-27T21:01:10","slug":"on-morons-and-911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=379","title":{"rendered":"On morons and 911"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It never ceases to amaze me how people think that for every trivial little thing, people think they should call 911 to solve their ills.  The was of course <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=312\">the 911 cheeseburger incident<\/a>.  Now some old bag <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotte.com\/mld\/observer\/news\/local\/11722231.htm\">landed herself in jail because she called 911 on a pizza delivery joint, because they wouldn&#8217;t deliver<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>People often call 911, though, to complain that their satellite television has gone out, the clog won&#8217;t drain or even to ask the time, she said. But once told they could be arrested for tying up the system, Giannini said, they usually stop calling.<\/p>\n<p>And in July, Charlotte-Mecklenburg residents will have an easy-to-remember phone number &#8212; 311 &#8212; to report nonemergency police matters or questions about city services.<\/p>\n<p>But on Sunday, Densmore kept calling 911, even after she was told to stop, Giannini said.<\/p>\n<p>When an officer arrived at her apartment, the 5-foot-tall, 98-pound woman attacked him, Giannini said. Densmore scratched him, kicked and bit his hand, she said. The officer did not need medical treatment, she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All this for a stupid pizza?! Couldn&#8217;t the old bag have saved herself all this trouble and called another pizza joint?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do people call 911 for such stupid things?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}